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Poster:	deitye	Date:	August 04, 2009 08:50:51am
Forum:	etree	Subject:	XML file of all the bands with MP3s

Title is self explanatory. I'd like to know if there is a way to generate an XML file of all the bands that have MP3 files on the Live Music Archive.

Like this page just in XML format:
http://www.archive.org/browse.php?field=/metadata/bandWithMP3s&;collection=etree

Thanks you.

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Poster:	Tyler	Date:	August 15, 2009 06:31:15pm
Forum:	etree	Subject:	Re: XML file of all the bands with MP3s

From Tracey our engineer:

hmm, the closest thing we'd have to that is a list of all bands in XML
but irrespective of whether or not they have mp3s.
(to do that, any page but top, "advanced search" link
then type in "mediatype:collection AND collection:etree"
in "Advanced XML Search..." section
and then have it output up to 100000 results (say)
and return identifier and title, and use XML format checkbox.


for the "bands with mp3s -- and how many shows for each band"
page is pretty "special" in that it requires a nightly download
of items from our SE and "bucketing" them into
"concert for band X has format:mp3"
bins and then storing the results.
we have an internal representation of that page, but it's
a "serialized PHP object" and not XML. not sure they'd
want to "consume and parse it"...
( http://www.us.archive.org/se_browse_cache.php?collection=etree&;field=bandWithMP3s )